~5 years ago I had desktop Linux and a chrome book. All compilation happened via cloud build and the preferred IDE was the cloud-based web app. I didn't really use my desktop for anything, not even ssh.
I switched to a Chromebook in the pandemic and honestly it was fine. My workflow barely changed. I wasn't a vim fanatic at the time so I didn't really care.
Many people don't do that. They sit in front of a desktop with a monitor plugged into it and use the desktop for everything, including stack overflow etc
They don't need the desktop for stack overflow. They're launching a browser. They can launch the browser in any computer without breaking their workflow.
The editor for people I'm talking about is running locally on the desktop. The user is viewing a window on a monitor attached to the desktop. How does this work without changing that workflow?
possibly, not everybody is ok with using a not so good editor, no debugger integration and keeping their ssh and pgp keys somewhere else than a local machine.
The in-browser editor at Google is actually very good and has built in debugging support. Some people still don't use it though, and this change seems to ignore that.
I switched to a Chromebook in the pandemic and honestly it was fine. My workflow barely changed. I wasn't a vim fanatic at the time so I didn't really care.